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Fool's Gold
03:46
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FOOL'S GOLD
You've got me sitting waiting up for you at night
And I am wishing for your call to come and take it all away
And then we'd walk the streets and tiptoe 'round the houses
Like you tiptoed to my head with all the lovely things you said.
Tiger, tiger, burning bright,
In the forrest I thought you were the light,
No immortal hand or eye
Could last from fateful symmetry.
You've got me wrapped around the webs of words you weave
And I am wishing for the poetry to light the way to day.
Or am I trapped inside a net of golden silence?
'Cause the whispers fade to gone as the darkness marches on.
Do you really mean? Did you ever mean?
Did you say it 'cause you wanted me to say the same?
But you didn't mean, you just wanted some
Way to make you feel like you're anyone.
It was clouded, all, by a veil of rain
But you called it all "beautiful insane".
I, the golden fool untold, fooled by you,
You are fool's gold.
Games and plans, building on sand,
Smoke and mirrors, all your gold is glitter.
The world is on your side again,
But what's the cost of golden friends?
You've got me sitting waiting up for you at night
And I am wishing for your call to come and take it all away
And then we'd walk the streets and tiptoe 'round the houses
Like you tiptoed to my head with all the lovely things you said.
Still it's not enough to find
The conscience and the peace of time.
The world is on your side again,
But what's the cost? It never ends.
Never ends, never ends, never ends.
I might have graced you with my own idea of soul
For although I'm a fool for being fooled, I couldn't find the light.
You are the tiger, you're the siren clothed in wonder,
But the wonder masked the fear that you couldn't stand to fight.
But I'm still sitting waiting up for you at night
Though I am just your second choice to pass the empty early hours.
Call me the fool for letting you do all the fooling
When you made me feel alive in the promise of the night.
Tiger, tiger, in the light,
You're not burning quite so bright.
No immortal hand or eye
Could ever frame faux symmetry.
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Merry Go Round
04:22
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MERRY GO ROUND
You held my hand and we walked a mile,
We can't see beyond the moment of our smile,
Because when you're here then I know the way
But the sun goes down upon a half-filled day.
Here we are again
Staring at stars again
Lost and found.
And oh with you it's like a merry go round and round,
The now and here and you and me
Is all that I can seem to see.
The lights are bright, you're still holding my hand, my eyes, my heart,
When you're here the rest of the world disappears.
We lose the time and you're all I see,
But when you walk away do you still think of me?
'Cause we fell so far and we didn't know,
But I know you knew when you let me go.
Here I am again
Staring at those stars again
Found and lost.
And oh with you it's like a merry go round and round,
The ups and downs, no in-between,
We're trapped and caught and no-one's seen.
But oh it stops when you have to get off,
The lights go out, it's all gone,
But the rest of your world and you just carry on.
We couldn't stay on this ride forever,
But we found ourselves stuck on it together.
I tried to jump but you wouldn't let go
Until you'd decided the time on your own.
We walked that mile hand in hand,
You left me in darkness, your head in the sand.
All that I knew we turned upside-down,
Then, again, when you went back to the road you had planned,
'Cause we fell together, but one fell apart.
You get the fairytale, I lost at the start.
And all we were was a merry go round and round,
It's just a lie, you live in dreams,
It wasn't ever what it seemed.
And oh it stopped when I wasn't enough.
It's just a ride
When you care that the rest of the world was always there.
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Waiting
03:49
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WAITING
You saw the signs in sunsets, walked too many miles.
You saw the glory in the freedom of the skies.
It wasn't anywhere you thought you found the end,
It's only in the running that you could still pretend.
And I'm waiting in a polaroid of smiles and open skies,
It doesn't show the fear and doubt behind our eyes.
I'm still waiting in a prison cell of promises and lies,
You meant the world and it went by and by and by.
I saw the beauty in a soul so lost and free,
I saw the way you fell through life's eternity,
And when you took my hand I'd follow to the end,
But you were running and the dream was just pretend.
And I'm waiting in a polaroid of smiles and open skies,
It doesn't show the fear and doubt behind our eyes.
I'm still waiting in a prison cell of promises and lies,
You meant the world and it went by and by and by.
When you're flying you're just falling nowhere,
'Cause you're dying as you're reaching for somewhere,
Blinded by the light of the sun, stolen by its glimmering gold,
Lost in empty puzzles of love, searching for the stories untold.
You couldn't bear to be sold,
Said you wouldn't be told,
I'd knew you'd never grow old.
Kaleidoscopic eyes and mirrors in your mind,
You tried to look for things I knew you'd never find.
I wished so many times you'd see it all in me,
But in the stillness you're still longing to be free.
And I'm waiting in a polaroid of smiles and open skies,
It doesn't show the fear and doubt behind our eyes.
I'm still waiting in a prison cell of promises and lies,
You meant the world and it went by and by and by.
Don't walk away from me, you always will,
Don't let the sun go down on the empty thrills.
Don't walk away from me, you always will.
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Cerian London, UK
London singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, Cerian, has been described as a contemporary fusion of Kate Bush, Joni
Mitchell & London Grammar. She creates beautifully crafted pieces of dark ethereal folk pop, integrating organic harp, guitar, piano & layered harmonies.
Having sung with U2, Radiohead, Sam Smith & Imogen Heap, she now presents her debut single as a solo artist: "Wasteland".
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